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I always tell people there are two clear areas where DynamoDB has some major benefits: - Very high scale applications that can be tough for an RDBMS to handle - Serverless applicat…

One difference with DynamoDB is that there's no query planner, so you can have a pretty good sense of how many items you'll hit and how big that read is.

Nice post! Question for you -- what are the performance implications of "re-keying" my records during the transform? Should I try to keep the same key for my transformed record as …

Wow! Congrats to you, Jay and Frank. I've been a fan of your work on both Seed.run & Serverless Stack for a while. Best of luck, and I'm excited to see Seed grow :)

I highly recommend this book and Swyx's other work. He's thorough while also distilling down to the most important bits. Great book for people that are just starting their coding c…

Yep! There are entire chapters on sorting & filtering. Note: it's different than in a relational database, but it's doable :)

Yep! It comes with PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats :)

It depends! For me, I like that 98% of DynamoDB work is frontloaded. I spend the time building the model but once it's done -- set it and forget it. With RDBMS, it's like there's a…

Thank you! I really appreciate it :) Hit me up if you have any questions!

Haha, I love that story at the end. I promise not to tell your company that it is a database.

luhn responded to this one pretty well :) Basically, most of these issues are gone. As long as you don't have extreme skew in your partition keys, you don't need to worry about thr…

I recommend On-Demand pricing 'until it hurts'[0], but that's because a ton of people I talk to are spending If you are at the point where you are spending over thousands of dollar…

Daniel, I'm a big fan of yours but disagree with this take :). It's definitely a database. The modeling principles are different, and you won't get some of the niceties you get wit…

All the examples are specific to DynamoDB and use DynamoDB features. That said, the principles apply pretty well to other popular NoSQL databases, especially MongoDB and Cassandra.…

True! I'm not a huge fan of Aurora Serverless and the Data API. The scaling for Aurora Serverless is slow enough that it's not really serverless, IMO. And the Data API adds a good …

Good point! I would usually not recommend using a database from a different cloud provider just because of different hassles around permissions, connections, etc. I've never found …

Awesome! Hit me up if you have any questions :)

I can understand the sentiment and don't fault you for it. That said, I think you can definitely handle complex, relational patterns in DynamoDB pretty easily. It will take some wo…

Thank you for your support! The biggest advice I can give you is not about any specific tool, it's about an approach. You need to think about how you will market the book if you're…

Thanks for your support! I'm grateful for the fix you suggested as well :)

I'd much rather pay for reads & writes directly rather than guessing at how my CPU and RAM will translate to the reads and writes that I need. RDBMS capacity planning basically goe…